Win for accountability
From the beginning, our goal in this case was straightforward. The law already earmarked PhilHealth’s funds for very specific purposes.
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From the beginning, our goal in this case was straightforward. The law already earmarked PhilHealth’s funds for very specific purposes.
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As international examples of democratic backsliding indicate, ‘when weak legislatures cede power to the executive, authoritarian leaders can more easily…
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‘Our goal is transparency, accountability, and ensuring that funds are properly used for the benefit of our people.’
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Education Secretary Sonny Angara recently received a strong show of support from non-teaching personnel and several education and business organizations, even…
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The Commission on Audit (CoA)has found P3.5 billion in unnecessary or unspent funds that the Department of Agriculture (DA) failed to return to the Bureau of…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. enabled the bicameral conference committee to increase the unprogrammed appropriations (UA) in the 2024 budget by P450 billion,…
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The funds were transferred to the National Treasury, creating a new revenue stream to ‘trigger’ the release of the UA.
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The Senate has scheduled the third and final reading on the measure on 9 December.
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The Senate assured the public that it remains on track with its timeline to pass the 2026 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), despite postponing the scheduled…
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A significant push to address the country’s classroom shortage is underway after the Senate Committee on Finance announced Wednesday that the proposed 2026…
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The brave words of legislators to remove all lump sums from the 2026 national budget that were convertible to the pork barrel failed to hold after Senate…
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‘This is what I was saying as early as January — there were 28 blank items spanning 13 pages in the bicameral conference report of the 2025 GAA.’
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Has the unutilized P60 billion really been reallocated to PhilHealth through the 2026 national budget? The poor and the sick are asking: ‘Please check.’
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Affected by the removal of the subsidy were PhilHealth’s indirect contributors, who are the indigent, seniors, and people with disabilities.
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The first live streaming on anomalous flood control projects was held by the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) on Tuesday, 02 December 2025.
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‘The recent catalogue of events in the ongoing flood control anomalies showcased last-minute insertions at the bicameral conference committee.’
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Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday vowed to continue fighting what she described as the “greed of some high-ranking officials in the government,”…
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Senator Bong Go continues push for the funding of Mati Airport: “Sana tuloy tuloy na ang pagpopondo na dati na nating ipinaglalaban.”
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